Lophospira viator
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LophospiraPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Lophospira
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Lophospira
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Lophospira
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Murchisoniina
- Environment
- coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina
Time the record covers
At most 17 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 459.3 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Lophospira viator on record, most of them in the Ordovician. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
6 occurrences- Ordovician100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
3 formations
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The named rock units Lophospira viator has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Lophospira viator and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Lophospira viator and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
276 taxa- Sinuitopsis neglecta6 sites
- Barrandicella tarda5 sites
- Ribeiria apusoides5 sites
- Haplospira vermiculosa4 sites
- Hyolithes4 sites
- Orthoceras bisignatum4 sites
- Anatifopsis bohemica3 sites
- Archaeoconularia3 sites
- Cyclopyge3 sites
- Dceruska primula3 sites
- Eudolatites angelini3 sites
- Exoconularia3 sites
- Grandostoma bohemica3 sites
- Hastatellina hastata3 sites
- Kloucekia phillipsi3 sites
- Lingulella3 sites
- Metaconularia3 sites
- Onniella3 sites
- Palaeoneilo3 sites
- Paterula bohemica3 sites
- Paupospira oweni3 sites
- Praeleda compar3 sites
- Pseudoconularia3 sites
- Selenopeltis buchi3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Lophospira viator, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
2 referencesEach of the 6 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Lophospira viator was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Lophospira viator, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itLophospira through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Perner 1907)